3 OPTIMISE YOUR GRAMMAR | Higher A2

Past simple: regular verbs, Wh- words Morning:

1 Write sentences about what Katrina did Shopping:
and didn’t do yesterday. bananas, apples, oranges ✓
1 play tennis ✓ chicken ✗
She played tennis (yesterday) Lunch with Sam at Claro Coffee ✓
2 bake a cake ✗
Afternoon:
 She didn't bake a cake yesterday
video games ✗
3 visit her friends ✗
homework in library ✓
 She didn't visit her friends yesterday
4 watch TV ✓
Evening:
 She watched TV
see grandparents ✓
5 start a new project ✓
She started a new project went
1 Dev              shopping in
October 2nd 
the morning.
2 Use the prompts to write questions in the bought
2 He              fruit, but he
past simple.             
didn't buy chicken.
did + 1 who / you / talk to / yesterday / ? met
3 Then he              Sam at Claro
action in Who did you talk to yesterday? Coffee and they             
had lunch.
the
2 when / he / start / his current job / ? 4 In the afternoon, he             
didn't play
present
When did he start his current job? video games.
did
5 He              his homework in
3 why / they / not like / this town / ?
chose
the library, and he              a
 Why didn't they like this town? new book to read.
4 where / Alicia / stay / at the moment / ? 6 Later, he             
saw his
is/are/am +
Where is Alicia staying at the moment? grandparents. They             
were
ing
5 whose / exhibition / you / enjoy / most / last happy to see him.
month / ?
Whose
 exhibition did you enjoy the most last month?
Unit round-up
Past simple: irregular verbs 5 Complete the text with the correct past
simple form of the verbs in the box.
3 Tick the two correct sentences. Underline
eat | not have | go | make | open
the mistakes in the other sentences and
not want | not write | think
correct them.
1 What did you ate for dinner last
night?             
eat
2 Joe didn’t thought the restaurant was open The Real Junkfood Café
today.             
think opened
In 2013, a chef called Adam Smith (1)       
3 The girls went shopping and then they baked a a small café in the city of Leeds. He asked
cake.              restaurants and shops to give him food they didn’t
4 Dad maked a healthy salad for lunch made
want and he (2)        fresh and healthy
made
today.              meals with it. He (3) didn't
      write any prices on
5 Did you get vegetables from the market on the menu. He just asked people to pay what they
Sunday?             
buy felt they could. And if they (4) didn't
      have any
money, they could help in the café. Some people
6 We readed three books about European history
washed dishes, others cleaned the floor and
last year.             
read
some (5)       
went to collect the food.
4 Complete the sentences about what Dev did Lots of people (6)       
thought it was a great
and didn’t do using the information in the idea, and in its first year over 10,000 people
ate
(7)        a meal in the café and they used
list and the past simple forms of the verbs
over 20 tonnes of food that shops and other
in the box below. didn't want . Today, there are more
places (8)       
be | buy (× 2) | choose | do | go than a hundred similar cafés across Britain and
in other countries including France, Germany,
have | meet | play | see
Australia, Poland and the USA.

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